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Is nothing sacred? 😢 https://www.moogmusic.com/news/moog-and-inmusic-new-chapter-innovation-and-collaboration-begins

Did you know that nearly all tracks in the Super Mario World soundtrack are variations on one single melody? Yet another example of Kōji Kondō's genius: https://retro.sx/music/122

All of Apple's Vision Pro marketing conveniently doesn't show what the wearer looks like to other people in FaceTime calls or while you're recording 3D video of precious family moments or whatever. The ultimate realization of the awkward camcorder-wielding parent? #WWDC

Interesting that Apple is sticking to referring to "machine learning" in their marketing language instead of jumping on the currently-more-trendy catch-all "AI". #WWDC

The best kind of pull request.

This 5-minute pilot for the stop-motion samurai film HIDARI was incredible, you should watch it: https://youtu.be/DpefYPLH67A

I love the meta concept of a wood sculptor being animated as a wood sculpture, and how wood makes up so much of its visual language. I hope they are able to make it into a full-length movie.

Fantastic concept, great track, and absolutely 🔥 cover art. https://youtu.be/Nvi8W_eVOQc

My biggest software UX pet peeve: A notification or message that tells you to manually navigate to a different part of the software. If you know I need to go there, give me some way to jump there in one click! Patient-facing medical dashboards are notorious for this.

Just released a little feel-good instrumental OP-1 track that I've been sitting on for a while: https://gridcurrent.bandcamp.com/track/walking-home

There are few things more satisfying than a tear-to-open package that actually tears perfectly straight across.